Happy New Year!

A very happy new year to all the readers of this blog!

And no, I’m not mad: Today is the first day of the year 215 according to the French revolutionary calendar. If it had been almost universally adopted, like the metric system, we would all have had the past five days off – Sunday was le Jour de la Vertu, Monday le Jour du Génie, Tuesday le Jour du Travail, Wednesday le Jour de la Raison, and Thursday le Jour des Récompenses.